Global Patent Index - EP 1915865 A2

EP 1915865 A2 20080430 - SCRAMBLING FOR ANONYMOUS VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Title (en)

SCRAMBLING FOR ANONYMOUS VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Title (de)

VERSCHLÜSSELUNG FÜR ANONYME VISUELLE KOMMUNIKATION

Title (fr)

BROUILLAGE POUR COMMUNICATION VISUELLE ANONYME

Publication

EP 1915865 A2 20080430 (EN)

Application

EP 06795179 A 20060731

Priority

  • IB 2006002083 W 20060731
  • US 59573405 P 20050801

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2007015133A2] A video communication system is disclosed which allows one or more of the participants to selectively participate anonymously by scrambling regions of the video of arbitrary shape, such as the face of the participant. Initially, the video content is analyzed to locate an arbitrary shape of interest, such as a human face or part of a human body. Once the region of interest is located, it is scrambled, for example, in conjunction with two well known video coding schemes; MPEG-4 and Motion JPEG- 2000. The arbitrary regions can be scrambled in the image-domain prior to coding, in the transform-domain during coding, or in the bit stream domain after coding.

IPC 8 full level

H04N 7/167 (2006.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

H04N 7/147 (2013.01 - EP US); H04N 7/15 (2013.01 - EP US); H04N 19/102 (2014.11 - EP US); H04N 19/136 (2014.11 - EP US); H04N 19/17 (2014.11 - EP US); H04N 19/18 (2014.11 - EP US); H04N 19/48 (2014.11 - EP US); H04N 21/4408 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 2007015133A2

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2007015133 A2 20070208; WO 2007015133 A3 20070412; CA 2617652 A1 20070208; EP 1915865 A2 20080430; IL 188801 A0 20080807; US 2008226068 A1 20080918

DOCDB simple family (application)

IB 2006002083 W 20060731; CA 2617652 A 20060731; EP 06795179 A 20060731; IL 18880108 A 20080116; US 99513906 A 20060731